Quiet and unassuming, but with a wickedly dry sense of humour: the iconic ambassador of the algorithm has a life story which deserves a wider audience than just computer scientists, who are as likely to have read his Art of Computer Programming as to have listened to Dark Side of the Moon

He’s the kind that makes a promise and then keeps you waiting, sometimes for many decades, but the result, when it finally arrives, is often something which shakes the whole world. I’ve been waiting for a good biography video about him for ages, and I’ve just found it.

This event was held as part of a seminar series called Key Thinkers. It was held at the University of Melbourne, Australia, on September the 3rd, 2009.

And here’s part two of Leon’s talk about Don:

And here’s what will inevitably become an historic video of ‘An Earthshaking Announcement’ (which is how it was billed by Don in his announcement of the announcement) at the TEX User Group (TUG) 31st anniversary conference in San Francisco on Wednesday June the 30th, 2010.